📰 The Best Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, AMD Zen 6, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL

With the Linux 7.2 kernel expected to be released on Sunday, 16 August, here is a look at some of the most interesting new features and changes to find with this next kernel version to be used by Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Best-Features

#amd #kernel #linux #ubuntu

📰 AMD GAIA 0.23 Delivers Ability To Install/Run AI Agents From The Terminal

AMD's GAIA open-source AI software built atop Lemonade for serving as an AI companion for emails, a Bash coding agent, and other AI agent skills is out with a new version today with more features while also improving security and making other improvements...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.23

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📰 Features Coming For Linux 7.3 From Optimizing Intel Hybrid CPUs To Old AMD Athlon XPs

With Linux 7.2 expected to see its stable debut Sunday, here is a look at what I have been monitoring as changes expected to be submitted during the Linux 7.3 merge window that will open on Monday...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Features-Preview

#amd #intel #linux

📰 Lemonade 11.6 Integrates Muse-Glimmer 30B, Experimental TheNoise ROCm Image Generation

For those dabbling with generative AI on the weekends, the AMD-led Lemonade SDK 11.6 is out today with its newest feature release of this open-source software for running local AI apps with optimized LLMs across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-SDK-11.6

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📰 AMD Posts Massive 109 Patch Series For GFX 12.1 RAS Support On Friday Evening

AMD has a tendency to send out large feature patch series for their open-source Linux drivers on Friday afternoons/evenings. Today we were greeted by a set of 109 patches working on RAS support for the upcoming AMD GFX12.1 target...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX12.1-RAS-Patch-Series

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📰 Marek Olšák's 19 Latest Patches Further Optimizing RADV & ACO

Legendary Mesa Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák who was a longtime AMD employee and then joined Valve's Linux graphics driver team earlier this year has continued his focus now on perfecting his art around the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-ACO-19-More-Patches-Valve

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📰 AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs

AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Better-QEMU-VM

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📰 The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee

Founding members AMD, EPAM, and Renesas already put in the groundwork, and there's a new Premier Plus membership tier to go with it.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17422118/xen-project-safety-committee

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📰 New AMD Low-Power Core & Unified Intel/AMD CPU Core Type Handling In Linux 7.3

Covered first on Phoronix back in June was an AMD Linux patch for introducing a new "low power" CPU core type to complement their typical "performance" cores and their "efficiency" cores like with Zen 4C/5C. That low power core is presumed for some Zen 6 clients and that integration is now merged for Linux 7.3 as well as unifying the Intel/AMD CPU core type handling...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-Core-Types-Linux-7.3

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📰 New AMD P-State Patch Delivers Major Linux Gaming Performance Boost

by George WhittakerA newly proposed patch for the Linux kernel's AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver is showing impressive gaming performance improvements, potentially delivering a noticeable boost for Ryzen users without requiring new hardware. Early benchmarks indicate that the optimization can significantly improve frame rates in CPU-bound games by allowing processors to respond more quickly to changing workloads. (phoronix.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/new-amd-p-state-patch-delivers-major-linux-gaming-performance-boost

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📰 GCC Patch Adjusting AMD Zen 5 Misprediction Cost Nets 12% Win In Benchmark

An AMD compiler engineer posted a patch on Saturday for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The two-line patch adjusts the misprediction cost for Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors, which ends up yielding a 12% improvement in one SPEC CPU benchmark on Zen 5 and a 9% improvement on Zen 4...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Mispredict-Cost

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📰 Linux Kernel 7.2 Officially Released with Cache-Aware Scheduling, USB4STREAM, and Major AMD Improvements

by George WhittakerLinux creator Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux Kernel 7.2, opening another chapter in the development of the world's most widely deployed open-source kernel. The final release arrived on August 16, 2026, following seven release candidates and roughly two months of development. Kernel.org now lists Linux 7.2 as the latest mainline release.Linux 7.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-kernel-72-officially-released-cache-aware-scheduling-usb4stream-and-major-amd

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📰 volt-gui is an AMD Adrenaline / NVIDIA Settings alternative for Linux

Coming from the developer of DXVK-Sarek that recently got updated is volt-gui, an alternative to AMD Adrenaline / NVIDIA Settings for Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/volt-gui-is-an-amd-adrenaline-nvidia-settings-alternative-for-linux/

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📰 LLVM/Clang 23.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & NVIDIA Rigel Support, Partial C++26 Support

LLVM 23.1 was released today on-schedule as the first stable release of the LLVM 23 series as the H2'2026 update to this open-source compiler stack...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-23.1-Released

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📰 Lemonade 11.8 Makes It Easy To Run DeepSeek V4 Flash On AMD Strix Halo

For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max "Strix Halo" systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-11.8

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📰 AMD Preparing To Enable HDMI 2.1 FRL Support By Default For Linux

It was back in May that the surprising event happened of AMD posting HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their open-source AMDGPU Linux driver as part of their broader HDMI 2.1 bring-up. For years the open-source HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU was blocked by the HDMI Forum but whether it was due to Valve or some other event, the code was finally unblocked. While it's been part of the kernel since Linux 7.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Default

#amd #kernel #linux #opensource

📰 The Challenges In Bringing AMD ROCm To FreeBSD

This summer an intern with the FreeBSD Foundation worked on porting AMD ROCm to FreeBSD. The internship is concluding while the FreeBSD ROCm code is almost to the stage of being able to perform simple vector addition workloads...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-FreeBSD-Intern-Report

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📰 New Linux Patches Tune AMD Ryzen Zen 6 To Optimize Performance & Power Consumption

Ahead of the next-generation AMD Ryzen Zen 6 client processors debuting, an important patch series was posted overnight to the Linux kernel mailing list. These patches provide new Zen 6 client Energy Performance Preference "EPP" tunings that are important for optimizing performance and power consumption for these upcoming AMD Zen 6 desktop and laptop processors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-Client-EPP-Tunings

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Lekuo SouthBridge Max Puts An AMD B650 Chipset Onto A PCIe Card For More I/O

For those looking at expanding the SATA, NVMe, and/or the USB/USB-C capabilities of your system, the Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an interesting creation that I have been trying out. The Lekuo SouthBridge Max puts an AMD B650 chipset onto a low-profile PCIe add-in card to provide all of the above without any bifurcation required. Given that it's an AMD B650 chipset, it also "just works" nicely under Linux.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/lekuo-southbridge-max

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📰 AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays

Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v5

#amd #kernel #linux